FI Book Review:'The War Diaries'

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Gents-

An interesting take on world wars, as seen through the eyes of civvies and soldiers alike, 'The War Diaries', Canongate books, 2004. An anthology of wartime diary entries from Queen Victoria to Franz Kafka. ~S~

[AltarBoy]

Sounds interesting, m8. I'm really enjoying Carnage and Culture- even has an account of the Spartans against Xerxes. Anyone ever read the Black Angels? It's good read about the Waffen-SS and the even more fanatical Hitler Jugend.

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I did read a related story (cant remember book) about Hitler youth/werewolves that proved Bavarian resistance lasted well past 1947!!! unimaginable. Not to mention the hordes of refugees moving through Europe. Enjoy the read! ~S~

[AltarBoy]

Thanks m8. Yeah, Had finished reading the Black Angels last month. Interesting fact that when Himmler ran out of Aryan men to fill the Waffen-SS he turned to other races including Arabs and others from Norway, Flemland, France, etc. But it was the Hitler Jugend that proved to be the most fanatical even up until the fall of Berlin. But there was one brutal massacre in a small French village that proved to me how ruthless and even animalistic the SS can be. Burning everyone in a church. One young SS conscript eventually ran away, sicken by what he saw and gave himself up the nearest Allied soldier he found.